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jirsoft

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Joined: 18/09/2020
Location: Czech Republic
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Posted: 07:38pm 02 Feb 2021
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Because in the past I played with ASCII conversion on C64 (better said PETSCII), I made small adaptation for CMM2:
Texter.zip
(Because it needs TUI.INC and GRF.INC for dithering and BMP saving, I packed it together...)

App is very simple, just let user select source image, convert it to grayscale (simple dithering), save it, then convert it to ASCII mode 0 (whole char luma), again save it, after press of the key ASCII mode 1 (quarter of char) and save final image.
In line 169
  Quote  CONST fnt = 1

is possible to change font for rendering (also user selected, just need to be loaded right after this line).


So from this:


Will do this:

And the this:

and thisL
Jiri
Napoleon Commander and SimplEd for CMM2 (GitHub),  CMM2.fun
 
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